Cleaner

Job description

Job Description

• Abbeygate Sixth Form College
• Address: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3TT
• Salary: £12.99 per hour
• Hours: 10 hours per week, 42 weeks per year, Mondays - Friday, 4 - 6pm
• Contract: Permanent, required as soon as possible
• Reference: 5390

Eastern Education Group and Abbeygate Sixth Form College are looking for a dedicated Cleaner to join our team and help maintain a safe, clean, and hygienic learning environment for students and staff. This role is essential in ensuring the college meets high cleanliness and health standards.

You will be responsible for cleaning designated areas of the college, following all relevant health and safety procedures. Your duties will include cleaning classrooms, offices, toilets, and communal areas, vacuuming and mopping floors, and responding promptly to spills when required. You will also be responsible for cleaning windows, replenishing supplies, and carrying out deep cleans as scheduled to ensure all areas of the college are kept to a high standard.

As a key holder, you will be required to open and secure the premises at the beginning and end of shifts, ensuring all doors and windows are locked and alarms are set correctly. You will take responsibility for the safe storage of cleaning materials and equipment, report any maintenance issues, security concerns, or health and safety hazards to the site manager, and ensure that the building remains secure when occupied or vacant.

This position requires reliability, attention to detail, and a strong commitment to maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for all members of the college community.

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Please read the Job Description (Word).

For further information please contact our recruitment team by emailing [email protected].

How to apply

Please complete your application by visiting the Eastern Education Group's recruitment portal.

If you have not heard from a member of the HR Team within 14 working days of the closing date, please presume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Closing date: 8am, 8 August 2026

Interview date: 17 September 2026

We reserve the right to appoint prior to listed closing date, early applications are encouraged. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, gender reassignment, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age in accordance with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.

The EEGSL is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment practices and will undertake all the required pre-employment checks on the successful candidate including an enhanced DBS Disclosure.

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